Jesus on money or God as competing value systems

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Jesus on money or God as competing value systems

Jesus said you cannot serve both money and God

This has different connotations

One is that the competition to obtain money will make you hostile in disposition both to those who have achieved more than you and to those who have achieved less than you

Your value system will be corrupted if you worship or serve money ahead of God - you will lose respect for humanitarians or solders or low grade nurses who spend their lives helping others but make very little

You will oppose welfare reform to help those in America who are starving or hungry

You will support callous policies that harm others because it lowers your taxes

You will view disabled people and sick people and old people as unnecessary and annoying burdens to society rather than viewing them with the mercy and adoration that Jesus had for them

You will oppose the goodness of God because it favours the weak and down trodden and not the beautiful and elite rich

Many rich people become abusive because they equate value with money rather than equating value with dignity and hard work and humility and sacrifice and respect and virtue and kindness and compassion so they end up objectifying people by material and visual standards rather than appreciating them for who they are inside

Money also enables people to choose hedonistic pleasure over eudaemonic pleasure leading to a life of vanity and meaninglessness and selfishness where nothing is significant or real or revitalizing or life changing

Money also leads to deceit when you end up practicing dishonesty first by lying to yourself about who you are and than lying to others about who you are and than lying to yourself about who they are and than lying to others about who they are and than lying to yourself about what life is and than lying to yourself about who God is

In conclusion it is important both to give and to appreciate others and to practice asceticism to avoid the love of money

Jesus on money or God as competing value systems
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